Illume keyboard

qwo Quikwriting for Openmoko keyboard

It is hard to call this a key-board, it looks more like a pair of Ouija board than a matrix of buttons. But as far as an touchscreen input method for letters, this one allows the stylus to remain on the screen and move continuously. Needs a few hours of practice before writing words fluently.

Then switch keyboard from "None" to "Default" in Illume's preferences.

How to turn off the Qtopia keyboard ?

Short answer: Add the line export QTOPIA_NO_VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD=1 into the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89qtopia.

Warning: Even when you install another keyboard, if you do not turn off the Qtopia keyboard it will come back on the top to bite you trollishly. References:
Comment on ticket 1864, and untested proposed
patch to qpe.
If you use base-image (testing) don't forget to set E_PROFILE="-profile illume" in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile see [1]

Now you can choose your language in the upper left corner of the keyboard !

Other keyboards

Matchbox has no predictive mode (to be confirmed ?).

How to toggle the predictive mode on and off ?

Quick and Dirty version of toggle the predictive mode on and off is a small script that renames the dictionary
words.dawg to words.dawg.off and back. The dict is still loaded, but after restart you can work without predictive mode, because the the predictive mode is dependend on the dictionary.
You can find the dictionary in the folder /opt/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US

How to make Qtopia keyboards and illume/raster keyboard coexist ?

TBD

Your short-term options

Even if things might look bad, you shouldn't assume that they are

Turn off the Qtopia keyboard and install the matchbox one instead.

Keep the Qtopia keyboard, let go (for a while) the desire to use the terminal locally, login remotely via ssh when you need.

Get an external keyboard, USB or Bluetooth, light and foldable if you want.

Illume keyboard

qwo Quikwriting for Openmoko keyboard

It is hard to call this a key-board, it looks more like a pair of Ouija board than a matrix of buttons. But as far as an touchscreen input method for letters, this one allows the stylus to remain on the screen and move continuously. Needs a few hours of practice before writing words fluently.

Then switch keyboard from "None" to "Default" in Illume's preferences.

How to turn off the Qtopia keyboard ?

Short answer: Add the line export QTOPIA_NO_VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD=1 into the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89qtopia.

Warning: Even when you install another keyboard, if you do not turn off the Qtopia keyboard it will come back on the top to bite you trollishly. References:
Comment on ticket 1864, and untested proposed
patch to qpe.
If you use base-image (testing) don't forget to set E_PROFILE="-profile illume" in /etc/enlightenment/default_profile see [1]

Now you can choose your language in the upper left corner of the keyboard !

Other keyboards

Matchbox has no predictive mode (to be confirmed ?).

How to toggle the predictive mode on and off ?

Quick and Dirty version of toggle the predictive mode on and off is a small script that renames the dictionary
words.dawg to words.dawg.off and back. The dict is still loaded, but after restart you can work without predictive mode, because the the predictive mode is dependend on the dictionary.
You can find the dictionary in the folder /opt/Qtopia/etc/dict/en_US

How to make Qtopia keyboards and illume/raster keyboard coexist ?

TBD

Your short-term options

Even if things might look bad, you shouldn't assume that they are

Turn off the Qtopia keyboard and install the matchbox one instead.

Keep the Qtopia keyboard, let go (for a while) the desire to use the terminal locally, login remotely via ssh when you need.

Get an external keyboard, USB or Bluetooth, light and foldable if you want.